In late 2015 my wife and I were invited to join a friend and his wife --Juan and Esther-- on a two-hour excursion outside Mexico City in San Rafael Atlixco. For days he nostalgically took us on a tour down memory lane detailing his family history and upbringing against the backdrop a place that had once been very commercially active in the 20th Century; it had been the town's golden century, that is until the French operation went belly up.
Knowing my obsession for meeting people and documenting life, Juan took me to meet the owners of a local bakery walking distance from his spacious and recently renovated weekend home.
![Proud but a bit shy](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55401239e4b0a6b95849b31c/1498009186008-B2Q9L5GI6KHMZ17CJ7A0/20150808-DSC4790_DF.jpg)
![Finished and ready to go](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55401239e4b0a6b95849b31c/1498009101473-XWA9QITT57NBQYGCWLYH/20150808-DSC4724_DF.jpg)
![Sweet bread in the Mexican tradition](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55401239e4b0a6b95849b31c/1498009019485-UZ10098OH9VD0TGKYZLO/20150808-DSC4693_DF.jpg)
!["Would you like a cookie?"](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55401239e4b0a6b95849b31c/1498008997456-LWEGOSPPZUAA3UVVCT9X/20150808-DSC4704_DF.jpg)
![A few for coffee, later](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55401239e4b0a6b95849b31c/1498009058164-E3W6W9NXCX6CCS77WWLV/20150808-DSC4706_DF.jpg)
![At the furnace](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55401239e4b0a6b95849b31c/1498009149593-U6157RSUYJ02N63JZTKT/20150808-DSC4732_DF.jpg)